Schneider Electric reviews

1. Unclear role and responsibility from day 1 of the new team. Many, many, many politics. The total number of big and small organization changes could not be counted by 2 hands, within just 1.5 years. 2. It is design and development team, but the technical skills and competencies are far away from the target, especially for senior and even architect level staff. 3. No fairness, small amount of good and hardworking members are punished because of so called “no cooperation behavior”; most of the unskilled members are safe, without any penalty. 4. No commitment and ownership, committed at the beginning but finally not delivered, with different types of excuses and reasons. Such things are “encouraged” without any change. 5. Manager without any R&D background, very little leadership and people management skills, no clear direction at all. 6. Department from HQ is very aggressive in doing project, very tight schedule but less help from other team members. 7. Project delayed again and again and again, finally HQ could not wait and tolerate, they took over the ownership otherwise even the HQ management will be “dead”. Overall, the situation becomes worse and worse. More and more people will leave.

Chaotic management leads to frequent “change”, normally towards bad side. Technical opinions are not valued, local management focus on politics instead of project delivery. Punishment given to employees who dare speak real progress of project. Management hide progress of project from upper management. Overall horrible experience.